Smoking is generally considered bad for you. Thus, smoking is portrayed by the villain, so as to drive home the Aesop that Drugs Are Bad.

It is almost never portrayed as "cool" in 21st century media, and even the Badass seems to be quitting the habit. In children's cartoons, it's perfectly acceptable for a villain to smoke, especially if they blow it in somebody's face, but the hero thinks it's a disgusting habit, or they may be trying to quit. Alternatively, a heavy smoker may be shown as extremely affected by the smoke to show how bad it is.

The rule is suspended under very specific conditions:

The smoker is someone wise or fatherly. This utilises a pipe. It's okay because nobody under 50 is going to stuff a pipe with tobacco nowadays.

The smoker is Native American, and only smokes a Peace Pipe as a cultural gesture.

The smoker isn't really smoking, but rather blowing bubbles from a Bubble Pipe or something like that.

The smoker is rich, and has enough money to blow on large amounts of cigarettes, cigars etc.

The smoker is a vampire (or something similar) and thus is already dead anyway.

Also, what and how one smokes determines Good Smoking from Evil Smoking.

A cigarette holder, especially the long ones, is an Evil Smoking indicator, usually reserved for evil bitchesof allkinds. However, as symbols of class and elegance, a female using a cigarette holder could be either Good or Evil, depending on the time the work was made.

Male users of cigarette holders are always Evil unless they're The Pink Panther, Hunter S. Thompson, or FDR (or an Expy thereof), who is allowed to use the holder by means of the Grandfather Clause.note (FDR himself once explained to a child that he used a cigarette holder because, "I promised my doctor that I would stay as far away as possible from a cigarette.")

A character smoking several cigarettes at once indicates a rebellious character who has little to no regard for their health.

A pipe is a Good Smoking indicator, usually reserved for grandfatherly gentlemen. If the character is younger, he is calm, collected and stoic, probably an intellectual, and probably a character in a period piece. A member of law enforcement, most often a detective (or Private Eye), is more likely to use a pipe in homage to a certain famous pipe-smoking detective. If they do, this also generally makes them a Good Smoker and not a Dirty Cop. If a woman smokes a pipe, she is inevitably old enough to be a grandmother, working class or dirt-poor and from a rural area.

The exception is East Asian women, if they're not Westernized enough to smoke cigarettes; while not being Westernized obviously often goes along with poverty and/or isolation, there is also a certain tendency in Asia for the wealthy—especially wealthy women—to stick to traditional dress and habits. Western customs were partly adopted as a business expedient, after all, and the alternative therefore has gained connotations of luxury and leisure.

Clove cigarettes are cool smoking. Alternately, they may be the sign of a pretentious hipster douchebag. Kind of like the Emo Kid version of Beard of Evil.

The character is The Stoner, and smoking is a part of their character. Of course in a lot of films with Stoners, The Stoner gets killed so smoking is very, very bad for you indeed…

Smoking weed goes all over the place with this trope, mostly because works have differing opinions if Drugs Are Bad and if the people who use them are bad also.

In stoner-friendly productions, a good smoker is someone that sticks to mostly soft natural psychoactives (marijuana, salvia, magic mushrooms, etc) and occasionally LSD, but this only applies when contrasted with someone that does hard drugs like meth, crack or Angel Dust. Even then, the latter group may be treated with sympathy, rather than outright disdain.

It isn't entirely clear-cut, but good characters will often smoke slender cigars, and evil characters fat ones. Since Cuba, until recently, was under a trade embargo from the US, anyone in American media who smokes Cuban cigars has often been depicted to be some stripe of sleazebag. See It's Cuban for more.

Cigarillos are usually sleazy, low-level evil with a tendency to droop. Of course, there is Clint Eastwood.

Also an indicator of Evil Smoking is if they hold a cigarette in an unusual way. As Jim Jarmusch comments to Harvey Keitel in Blue In The Face:

Nazis in movies. Why do they always smoke in some weird way like this? [puts cigarette between middle and ring fingers and speaking in German accent] "Ve have vays of making you talk!" Or this [holds cigarette with thumb and index finger] "Jah, we have seen vhat you've done!"

Not surprisingly, before the Surgeon General's report on tobacco use this trope was almost completely reversed. Non-Smokers were uptight and uncool, Smokers were just doing what everybody else did, and were perfectly normal, and made smoking look cool and perfectly healthy. It was more common for heroes to smoke than villains.

The critical change was in 1964 when the US Surgeon General released a damning report of the incontrovertible link between smoking and lung cancer, which convinced the public to gradually turn against tobacco. By The '70s, the No Smoking trope had gotten sufficient strength that tobacco advertising on American TV was banned and artists were encouraged to downplay tobacco such as in the TV series, Kojak, when the detective switched to lollipops and made them his trademark.

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Advertising

An old Airwick commercial commented on "The Old Fogie Stogie", featuring an old man who laughingly blew cigar smoke at the viewer.

Before the climate changed against smoking, Marlboro had a series of ads featuring The Marlboro Man, a cowboy who would invite viewers to "come to where the flavor is". Marlboro cigarettes were so popular that there was a billboard of the Marlboro Man blowing smoke rings on Times Square in New York until the late 80s.

One Piece: Smokers who are Luffy's allies, such as crew member Sanji, smoke cigarettes. Those who are his enemies are more often the ones with cigars.

The obviously named Smoker has cigars strapped to his arms like machine-gun rounds (they're edited out in the 4Kids dub of the anime). He's seen smoking two or three at once sometimes, and while he is more a rival than an enemy, it's meant to signify "Badass". He also has the excuse of his Devil Fruit giving him smoke-based powers.

Sir Crocodile smoked huge cigars, and was THE antagonist of the Alabasta arc

Averted with Paulie, who's the only good character smoking cigars.

Asuma from Naruto met every condition for the suspension, he was even going to be a father soon. Shikamaru however didn't quite make the cut and thus, his smoking had to be censored in the anime. He carried a lighter with him that he turned on and off in the deceased Asuma's memory instead.

The hero from Space Adventure Cobra is a cigar smoker of the Badass variety. It is very rare to see him without a cigar in the mouth (though not always lighted). Note that his cigars often contains bondesque gadgets (like some allowing water-breathing).

The three main characters of Cowboy Bebop frequently smoke cigarettes, with all of them leaning towards good. This is never mentioned by anyone in the show, giving the audience the impression that smoking instead became more commonplace in the future. Whether this is because the health issues are no longer a problem given superior medical technology or just because their line of work makes them unlikely to live long enough to worry about lung cancer is uncertain. The aesthetics of the show come from 1970's. Smoking is a part of the image.

Lampshaded in an Adult Swim bumper that theorized that in the Cowboy Bebop universe, tobacco is classified as a food group.

The Red King, Mikoto Suoh, and his second-in-command, Izumo Kusanagi, from K are the "sexy" and "badass" variety.

The Blue King, Reisi Munakata, is also both sexy and badass, and only smokes when he's stressed (and thinking about Mikoto).

Stein from Soul Eater is almost certainly a "badass" exception for good smoking. On the other hand, his addiction to cigarettes is also used as a metaphor for his insanity. So it's a mix of Evil Smoking and Evil Is Cool.

Yuuko of ×××HOLiC smokes a traditional Japanese pipe a great part of her time at home. Later on Watanuki eventually inherits and uses the pipe himself

Hijikata Toshirou of Gintama is known for his chain cigarette smoking, and falls under both the sexy and Bad Ass exceptions. The mayonnaise bottle lighter ruins the effect somewhat. Or enhances it, whatever works for you. Quite a few characters in the series smoke, including Otose who smokes almost as much as Hijikata. The main villain Takasugi Shinsuke however smokes a long pipe. Tsukuyo also smokes a pipe, but though she was introduced as a villain she soon became one of the good guys.

Mr. Fujisawa from El-Hazard: The Magnificent World smokes regular cigarettes - and drinks alcohol, too - despite being one of the protagonists. It should be noted that drinking and smoking are "bad" for him in El Hazard, but not just in the ways you'd expect - he's Made of Iron and has Super Strength there, but both habits significantly inhibit his power; when he hasn't smoked or drinked in a while, he's a Nigh Invulnerable, unstoppable juggernaut.

Gokudera from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!! is a chainsmoker and makes it look really cool - partly justified in that he needs it to light his bombs and cuts down when he gets new powers.

When Tsubaki Kasugano from Mirai Nikki shows her true colors to Yukki and Yuno, she pulls out a pipe and smokes on it. Definitely evil smoking.

Unlucky Everydude Jean Havoc is always smoking a cigarette, and is definitely a good guy. However the real reason the author made him a smoker was just so he could throw Mustang a lighter in that ONE SCENE.

Pinako Rockbell, the Elric brothers' surrogate grandmother, smokes a pipe. As someone wise and grandmotherly, she is allowed.

Sailor Moon: In her original incarnation, Sailor Jupiter was to be the leader of a gang of female Delinquents, which included smoking. When the idea of her being a sukeban was scrapped, so was the idea of her smoking.

Shishio Makoto uses the more traditional kiseru, which fits more with the time period than an 'evil must smoke' cliche.

From the Jinchuu Arc, Otowa Hyouko of the Six Comrades uses a hookah, and in a flashback, the traitor I'izuka is seen once smoking a kiseru.

Saitou is just badass enough to be a 'good smoking' exception.

One of the more famous aspects of Doronjo in Yatterman is her habit of carrying a long, rather odd-looking pipe. In Tatsunoko Versus Capcom, she uses it as a weapon.

In a fillerDetective Conan case, there's an Upper-Class Twit who smokes. He ends up as the victim of the week. In fact, a guy who was jealous of him for fancying the same girl tried to use his smoking habits to go Murder the Hypotenuse by poisoning his cigarette filters. The twit had the habit of cutting said filters off, so he dodged death barely... And then he got killed by someone else.

In another case, there's a VERY bitchy chain smoker who is one of the suspects for killing a loan shark. She's the Sympathetic Murderer, as she killed said loan shark for driving her boyfriend to suicide.

In Spirited Away, the villainous Yubaba smokes a cigarette and exhales billowing clouds of smoke right into Sen's face. Her nicer sister Zeniba is not seen smoking.

Mushishi protagonist Ginko is an unusual example of a non-Badass good guy who smokes cigarillos - he's rarely seen without one. Likely more of a tool than a vice, though, as the smoke they give off keeps mushi from getting too close for comfort.

Kitty Pryde only smokes when she's been somehow turned evil or possessed by something evil. The regular, non-possessed Kitty learned a long time ago that she had no interest in smoking after trying one of Wolverine's cigars in a moment of extreme frustration. A scene that Marvel would never allow in the modern era, since Kitty was only 15 at the time.

Wolverine used to smoke cigars, but eventually gave up the habit, specifically directly after losing his adamantium to Magneto's cruelty; his healing power got extremely taxed during that incident, which may have something to do with it (in-universe, at least). Paraphrasing:

Dr. Stephen Strange, the man who eventually became Doctor Strange, is shown lighting a cigarette in the operating room immediately after performing a surgery. In context, it indicates how self-centered he was.

On the evil side of the equation, Bullseye was often seen lighting up cigarettes before Marvel banned them.

Daily Planet chief Perry White was known to smoke cigars at one point. He was also a blowhard, but a good guy.

A cigarette holder is part of the Penguin's iconic look.

Lex Luthor is often shown smoking those evil cigars. Well, he is incredibly rich...

In the earlier days of the company, nearly every heroic character who was "respectable" (IE - Businessmen like Bruce Wayne or alien scientists from the future like Brainiac 5) was shown smoking pipes constantly. This remained the case for Dr Will Magnus, creator of The Metal Men, to the extent that when he became a Metal Man himself called Veridium, he still had the pipe, generated from his own veridium body.

Batman has been seen smoking a pipe in his Bruce Wayne identity as late as 1980 in an issue of New Teen Titans. He was addressing Robin in a fatherly way while relaxing in his armchair.

In The Sandman, Desire not only smokes all the time, but he/she is apparently just lighting its cigarettes constantly. This is possibly a subtle Shout-Out to Oscar Wilde: "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied." A perfect habit for the incarnation of desire.

Jenny Sparks is a chainsmoker. It gets to the point where she is seen with a cigarette almost 3/4 of the time.

Jenny Quantum picks up the habit.

When it was revealed that Terra was The Mole, she took to smoking. In this case, however, it was to provide a more mature look to the rather immature looking character.

In Watchmen, The Comedian smokes cigars, while Laurie and other side characters smoke cigarettes, though they look vastly different from what we would know them to be, given the divergent technology. Technically, they're actually pipes.

Transmetropolitan: Spider Jerusalem forces his non-smoking assistant to start. He's the hero, kindof. At least he seems to keep a good supply of "anti-cancer traits" on hand, and always tells the new assistant where they are just after telling them to start smoking; so, at least within The City, smoking isn't particularly harmful. According to a flashback, his ex-wife smoked from an octodecuple (that's eighteen) cigarette holder.

Fables has a wolf who smokes cigarettes and occasionally cigars to mask the scent of his One True Love and the general scent of the city. He's a heroic badass example, but unusual in that he has a specific reason for smoking.

Miss Misery in Sleeper. For her to stay perfectly healthy, she has to do bad things, which is why she's always seen smoking.

Hellblazer's John Constantine. Good badass smoker, and doesn't even have to worry about lung cancer thanks to his triple devil deal.

Preacher. Jesse smokes constantly, even pausing to light up mid fight on more than one occasion.

Manchester Black. His sister Vera also develops a smoking habit as she increasingly becomes convinced that he's inside her head.

Lucky Luke used to smoke until he quit and switched to a piece of straw circa 1983. The Prequel comic The Man Who Killed Lucky Luke shows how it happened in-universe (including why he picked the straw).

In the Donald Duck comicverse, Donald himself smoked until the climate changed. Now only bad guys such as Black Pete are seen to smoke.

If a witch in Witch Girls or Witch Girls Tales is smoking, they're a wicked witch. Especially if they're a child at the time. Cigarette holders are favored, but not mandatory.

Scott Pilgrim has a personal aversion to smoking to the point that he believes smoking to be a sign of being evil.

Emperor Zombie in The Amazing Screw-On Head actually smokes a scholar to learn everything he knows. Miraculously, it actually works. The fact that he was smoking and killing a person at the exact same time kind of seals the deal on that one.

The Phantom's enemies often smoked to indicate they were evil. Whereas cigarettes and cigars were often prominent, cigarette holders were reserved for the incredibly pompous, egotistical blowhards, such as General Tara, a self-centered dictator who brandished one easily a foot in length. It was an effective touch by artist Sy Barry as the accessory was obviously intended to affect a superior, haughty air, and when used by a fat, barbaric paramilitary type, very effete. When he was feeling his most smug and content, he blew smoke rings, often while anticipating some sadistic act, such as torturing the Phantom's fiancée, Diana Palmer in "The Tyrant of Tarakimo." In the story's sequel, he huffs lazy smoke rings from a massively ornate throne to indicate his satisfaction after his henchmen successfully kidnap Diana, presenting her to him in harem outfit.

In Astro City, this is played straight with Julius Furst, a Cigar Chomper of the old school. It is, however, subverted with his Badass Bookworm brother Augustus; Word of God is that the pipe he keeps in his mouth is actually a portable energy source, which is simply pipe-shaped for portability and habit.

Cruella DeVil not only smokes, but for added evil, uses a cigarette holder. Indeed, no animated film ever made smoking look more disgusting than this film with Cruella polluting the air with green smoke and putting out her cigarette in a pastry.

Donald Duck, as much as people don't remember it now, was a sailor. He cursed up a storm (in duck quacks), he got mad, and yes, he smoked cheap stogies. Huey, Dewey, and Louie once got a taste of the 'forced excessive smoking' part of the trope above. Of course, it being Donald...

Early in Pinocchio the kindly Gepetto smokes a pipe. That is the only smoking in the film that isn't evil smoking. The villains Honest John, Gideon, and Stromboli smoke cigars, and the most villainous character, the Coachman, smokes a pipe while also encouraging the boys he abducts at Pleasure Island to smoke cigars including Pinocchio and Lampwick; when they do so, it's a sign they're being corrupted.

Ariel from The Little Mermaid grabs the meerscham pipe on the dinner table when she sees it. Eric's guardian starts to tell her about it when she blows into it, thinking, because of Scuttle, that it would make music.

In Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, only the nuisance Flip smokes and multiple characters including the title character order him to stop. In the early 20th century comic, Flip was far more amoral (though friends with the title character) and again the most prevalent smoker, never going anywhere without a cigar in his mouth (Nemo's mom thinks he is a troublemaker because of his cigars), though Nemo's father is shown smoking a few times too.

Mobster Salvatore Valestra in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is shown in flashbacks as a heavy cigar smoker. In the scenes taking place in the movie's "present", the cigars took such a toll on him that he's constantly wheezing and has to carry around an oxygen tank.

One of the Sisters from Kubo and the Two Strings smokes a pipe. Whilst pipes are normally more of a good example, it's rather sinister looking and elongated like the more conventionally evil cigarette holder. She's also able to cast powerful smoke-based magic from it.

Films — Live-Action

Cruella de Vil also has this habit in the live-action 101 Dalmatians. The sequel, 102 Dalmatians, uses her attitude towards smoking as an indicator of her "Ella" personality (who now hated it) and the return of "Cruella" (who loved it).

In a subversion, Shermin is a good and gentle sort, who smokes a cigar. He's actually the one who arranges it so Jenny and her alien companion get away. And he blows smoke in the general's face to indicate he's glad he did it, even though it might well be the end of his career.

Jenny is also shown smoking in the opening scene, which helps establish that she is upset about her husband's loss.

Soldiers smoke in war movies. Grunts are generally seen smoking cigarettes, while colonels and generals smoke cigars.

One of Terry-Thomas' trademarks was smoking using a cigarette holder. He almost always played upper-class scoundrels.

Satine in Moulin Rouge! is shown smoking a cigarette in a holder (evil smoking, though she is secretly idealistic and ambitious). DVD commentary revealed it was Nicole Kidman's screen test for the character, which explains why Satine is never seen smoking except in that one shot.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is granted the suspension for toughness. The tough heroine Marion Ravenwood smokes during her meeting with Todt in her saloon, and blows smoke in his face and makes him cough. Watch it on YouTube here, starting around 4:40.

A subversion and a straight example feature at the same time in Chicago. "The Cell Block Tango": Velma Kelly being very sexy and smoking. But she's an incarcerated murderess who sings "HE HAD IT COMIN'!" about the victim, so she's also evil. So the smoking makes her more evil than all the non-smokers with Implausible Deniability.

Helena's Evil Twin in MirrorMask smokes (and snogs goth boys! Ick!), though never on screen. Even the commentary admits that this is a bit odd.

The first film has a scene near the end which illustrates Hellboy's and Director Manning's grudging respect of each other with them bonding over cigars.

By the second film, Hellboy's loose adherence to the rules has reduced Manning to bribing him with Cuban cigars. Hellboy II: The Golden Army actually has a disclaimer at the end of the credits (next to "this is a work of fiction" and "No Animals Were Harmed") explicitly stating that the film's depictions of smoking are for dramatic purposes only and should not be taken to imply anything positive about smoking in real life.

In Independence Day, Steve only smokes cigars at the end of any aerial dogfight he wins, because he's the hero. David, on the other hand, spends the whole movie as an over the top green type. He berated his father for smoking cigarettes. But after he and Steve have saved the world (and they light up Victory Cigars together), he cheerfully tells his father, "Oh, I could get used to it."

In The Core, Zimsky was the self-serving Jerk Ass through the entire movie, and had been denied his cigs by the rest of the cast. Due to the tendency of Disaster Movies to off the cast one member at a time, he finally ends up alone with his cigs, just in time for a Redemption Equals Death soliloquy.

Snake Plissken, tough guy Bad Ass from Escape from New York, smokes through that movie, and actually got the final shot with a Power Walk and a cigarette. In Escape from L.A. he doesn't have access to cigarettes until the end, in which he illuminates his face purely with the light of his match. In fact, the film is supportive of smoking rights. John Carpenter himself is a chain smoker.

Really, most (if not all) of John Carpenter's films include at least one scene in which a major character smokes a cigarette.

In xXx, only the bad guys smoke. One villain gets killed when his cigarette attracts a heat-seeking missile to him.

Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins smoked a pipe. We never actually see this, but he mentions it in "The Life I Lead":

At 6:01, I march through my doorMy slippers, sherry and pipe are due at 6:02Consistent is the life I lead!

In Ghost Rider, the police try Good Cop/Bad Cop on Johnny, and the good cop asks if he can have a cig. Johnny indicates he doesn't mind, but the Ghost Rider powers are in ready mode, and the cop's lighter flares up wildly.

John McClane lights up a cig in the limo in the first five minutes of the first movie.

Also notable in his scene with Hans. The fact that Hans — masquerading as an escaped hostage — holds his cigarette with his thumb and index finger is just one of the things that helps clue John in.

In the 1970s SupermanLois Lane not only smoked, but she smoked Marlboros. Because Marlboros are thought to be a manly cigarette, this was probably characterization for Lois Lane as a tomboy. Superman does warn her about the dangers of smoking as she does so, and in the distant sequel Superman Returns, actually blows out her lighter before she can light them. As a sign of changing times, Lois smoking is treated as a slightly bigger deal in Returns.

In the first of the Charlie's Angels movies, Eric Knox and the Thin Man both smoke.

The entire cast of Event Horizon shares a cigarette early in the film, which works as kind of a "Three on a match" callback. Thing is, that includes both good and evil characters.

In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Raoul Duke (an amoral, Chaotic Neutral / The Hedonist character, at best, when he's away from his typewriter) constantly smokes cigarettes from a cigarette holder (which Depp stole from the real HST, after he followed him around to get his characterization down), just like the real Hunter S. Thompson. Several critics complained that the cigarette holder always clenched between Johnny Depp's teeth made some of his dialogue unintelligible. As an interesting side note, Duke holds the cigarette holder with a lit cigarette in it in his mouth constantly, but he is never shown actually smoking the damn thing.

The Strawberry Blonde: As part of her faux-sophisticated act, Amy asks Biff for a cigarette. Later she admits that she only put one in her mouth once and didn't like it. At the end, Virginia asks Biff for a cigarette and smokes it, showing how coarse and hardened she's become.

Papa Midnite subverts the cigarillo trope by being a good/neutral witch-doctor turned bartender.

Constantine smokes excessively, only to find out during the movie that he has lung cancer. After Constantine willingly sacrifices himself to save the world (allowing him to enter Heaven), Satan ends up curing his cancer to keep him alive so he can claim him later. At the end of the movie, he's seen popping gum in his mouth.

The Ghostbusters smoke in the their first film. It's not necessarily cool, but it does help ground the heroes as working-class stiffs.

The first sign of Henry's evil in The Good Son is that he smokes. And gets Mark to smoke too.

The evil Smokers in Waterworld not only rely on smoke-spewing gasoline engines, but also seem to have an unlimited source of cigarettes.

In the 1997 version of The Borrowers, Mr. Potter smoked a cigar while wearing a suit and being played by overweight actor John Goodman. Guess what his alignment was.

As noted in the comics section above, actors portraying the Batman villain Penguin have appeared with a long cigarette-holder in their mouths or hands, in order to play up the character's snobbery and moral degeneracy. Ironically, both actors who played this character in live action — Burgess Meredith and Danny De Vito — were nonsmokers at the time. Rumor has it that Meredith's distinctive "waugh waugh waaaaugh" laugh was to cover up the cough that the herbal cigarettes caused.

James Bond makes his big-screen debut with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth. Good guys and bad guys alike smoke a variety of cigars and cigarettes throughout the series (although this has declined in recent decades). Tomorrow Never Dies has Bond exploit this trope twice against the bad guys, who smoked.

The era-appropriate exemption is played with in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as Eddie Valiant either borrows or buys some cigarettes from some people he met on the Red Line trolley. The exemption is also thrown into sharper relief by the fact that it's a bunch of kids that supplied them.

The movie Thank You for Smoking (set in the early '90s) featured this prominently, pointing out the idea of Hollywood getting paid to advertise smoking, as Big Tobacco was trying to find a mass market appeal again while facing allegations that cigarettes cause cancer. For extra irony, the film never actually shows anyone smoking.

This trope is invoked in the film version of The Lord of the Rings; even though only good guys smoke in the movies, Aragorn is made to look sinister in his first appearance by having him smoke in the shadows, with the fire glinting off his eyes.

In the 1961 version of Cape Fear, villain Cady smokes Scummy Bastard cigars, while heroic Bowden does not smoke.

Doubly inverted in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Angel Eyes (the Bad) smokes a pipe, but this makes him a Distinguished Badass rather than a Distinguished Gentleman. Of course, this is Lee Van Cleef we're talking about, so the Badass comes with the territory; he could have played a transsexual florist and been a Badass Transsexual Florist. Blondie smokes cigarillos, but is the Good (relatively, within the spectrum of Grey and Grey Morality).

Which leads to For a Few Dollars More, in which Col. Mortimer's pipe (incidentally, a gorgeous example) makes him a Distinguished Gentleman Badass.

American History X: Good people are portrayed as victims of smoking (Derek's mom), evil people enjoy smoking (all dem neo-Nazis). Derek specifically criticizes Danny for smoking and gently criticizes his mother for the same.

Derek: She's coughing her lungs out and you're blowing this shit in her face all day?

In Peach Blossom Weeps Tears Of Blood, a Rich Bitch mother refuses to allow her son to marry a poor peasant woman, even after the son has knocked the peasant woman up. The snobby, bitchy mother is frequently shown smoking from an elaborate cigarette holder.

Literature

In the famous Christmas poem Twas The Night Before Christmas, Santa Claus smokes, and the smoke encircles his head like a wreath.

In one of the Alex Rider books, one of the characters smokes, and Alex specifically comments that he thought he would take better care of himself. He turns out to be The Mole.

In Johannes Cabal the Detective Johannes says he only smokes to be anti-social, while the villain Count Marechal is constantly smoking-with Cabal thinking to himself 'I'm at the mercy of a demented chain smoker.' In a later chapter, Marechal is listening to Cabal talk for some time and is said to be on his eight cigarette of Cabal's speech.

Sherlock Holmes smokes a pipe in most adaptations of his story. Probably because the screechy violin and the fact that he did drugs in the books made it a case of choosing the lesser evil. He also smokes cigarettes in the original stories, but that detail rarely makes it into other adaptations, probably at least in part because of the prominence of this trope.

The thoroughly badass Commander Samuel Vimes smokes cigars after he gives up drinking following his marriage to Sybil Ramkin in Men at Arms.

Adora Belle Dearheart, in Going Postal and Making Money, is clearly one of the good guys and an unabashed chainsmoker. She is also sexy, a badass, and cool to the point of chilliness.

On a minor note, the goddess Anoianote Goddess of Things Getting Stuck in Drawers, but after Moist von Lipwig namedrops her for a bit of "providence" the spike in popularity has her tipped for Goddess of Lost Causes is also a chainsmoker, and smelling cigarette smoke is supposedly a sign that you're in her presence, but it doesn't come up much since she features most prominently in Going Postal and Making Money, and thus her presence is rather overshadowed by that of Adora Belle.note A long-time follower of Anoia, and theorized to be her avatar. Justified because she's implied to have been a volcano goddess in prehistoric times.

It's also mentioned in Going Postal that the sort of craftsman who smokes a pipe, and is therefore prepared to go through the methodical processes of tamping down, knocking out, etc., can be relied upon to be methodical in his work as well. Coincidentally, in Real Life Bernard Pearson of the Discworld Emporium smokes a pipe.

Stephane Maturin of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series smokes a pipe on occasion. He also struggles with a laudanum addiction throughout the series, gets addicted to coca leaves in the later books, and experiments with various other drugs that he comes across.

In Forgotten Realms, one of Elminster's "trademarks" is a pipe spewing vile blue or green smoke. Justified: magic in FR requires material components (a burning pipe provides several) and Elminster is immune to mundane ailments like smoker's cough (...and some poisons, and the need to sleep). The pipe itself holds lots of enchantments (e.g. it's able to follow its owner, teleporting when necessary) and is the activation key to some others.

In The Lord of the Rings, smoking is not an indicator of good or evil but of culture, as smoking is not universally known or done.

Smoking is practised by the hobbits and men of the Shire and Bree-land, and by the Dwarves and Northern Dúnedain who adapted it from them. Elves do not smoke, and in the Southern human lands it is unknown. The actual smoking is done by pipe, and in the recreational-at-rest rather than the chain-smoking way. The hobbits are quite proud of the fact that, although they were not the first to cultivate pipe-weed, they can lay claim to the idea of smoking it.

Saruman is also a smoker, secretly picking it up after having seen Gandalf smoke, although in the open he ridiculed him for it. Amusingly, in Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, the scene where Saruman berates Gandalf's smoking indicates that Saruman the Wise couldn't figure out the function or purpose of smoking without being explained; he assumed that it was a toy Gandalf had invented to make funny shapes with smoke. The idea of soothing herbs completely missed him.

Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon shows its present-day protagonist becoming a smoker as part of his character arc, mostly as a way of implying that he's loosening up and adapting to a more varied and dangerous lifestyle. His girlfriend gets the toughness exemption, and one WWII-era protagonist the historical exemption. It was more that he would accept a cigarette when someone offered him one, rather than fretting about the health implications of one cigarette every couple of months or so; there is nothing to suggest he had acquired a pack-a-day habit.

The character Halloween smokes cloves in Literature/Idlewild as part of his teenage rebellion. He is very cool. The character Pandora also smokes cloves, presumably for the same reason, perhaps because she loves Halloween and wants to share something with him.

Commander Julius Root of Artemis Fowl fame is well known for constantly having a cigar in his mouth, though his are not made of tobacco but of some unnamed (and nasty-smelling) fungus. He's pretty Bad Ass, but mostly he's Da Chief, so he's contractually obligated to have one.

Everybody in Atlas Shrugged smokes and one of the very many filibusters in that novel is about how appropriate it is to smoke while thinking: this notorious "point of light" argument is one thing that Rand haters and Rand fans both generally agree on.

In The Thrawn Trilogy, a well-known ship thief named Niles Ferrier smokes carabbaba tabac cigarras - think small cigar with beige smoke - and the smell of carabbaba tabac smoke is something various characters use to pinpoint the man's location. He's scum. The heroes use him, and Thrawn pays him to do various things, but no one likes him and it's not hard to see why.

Elsewhere in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Lando Calrissian occasionally smokes a cigarra, but not at all often. Possibly only when he was young.

Dannik Jerriko in Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina and Galaxy of Fear smokes. He calls it a disgusting habit, and persists all the same (one of the people whose brains he ate was a smoker so he ended up addicted). In Galaxy of Fear he actually uses his smoking as an alibi, pointing to the amount of ash in his living area as a sign that he couldn't have been out murdering people.

In most continuities where he appears, Captain Hook is fond of cigars, and has a holder that lets him smoke two at once.

The early Cat Who... books were written in the 1960s and depicted the main character as a pipe smoker. The series was discontinued after only a few books, but revived close to 20 years later. At that point, attitudes about smoking had greatly changed and within a couple books into the relaunch, a female doctor convinced Qwilleran to drop the pipe.

In The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun, Elijah Baley smokes a pipe. At the beginning of the second book, he is debriefed by a senior official who smokes cigars. He quits before the third book, and reflects that he normally doesn't miss it, but would have welcomed the feel of a pipe during a hard case.

In The Stainless Steel Rat, the protagonist smokes cigars. He used to have an alternate persona (used to actually commit crimes) which smoked cigarettes.

The James Bond novels ditch all the smoking tropes here. Good guys smoke, bad guys don't. If the bad guy does smoke, it's invariably cheap, low quality cigarettes. Bond himself smokes as an indicator of how little he cares about anything. He knows he's hurting himself by doing it, he just doesn't care.

In the Newsflesh-verse, smoking is back in vogue, more-or-less. It can no longer cause cancer thanks to the Man Made Plague, but it can still cause emphysema. So people smoking is no indication of their morality one way or the other.

The Dragon Knight series manages a series of exceptions leading to one (brief) instance of heroic opium smoking. The protagonist is recovering from bubonic plague, local medicine is around the Dark Age level, opium is realistically the most practical painkiller available in the world, and once he's coherent enough to realize what he's been given he immediately checks with an expert on the issue of addiction.

A majority of situation comedies prior to 1960 featured main protagonists who smoked cigarettes ... too many to list in their entirety, but a few examples:

I Love Lucy: A blatant example, where all four leads smoked on a regular basis, especially in pre-1956 episodes where Little Ricky became a prominent member.

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: George regularly smoked a cigar throughout each episode; Burns was a lifelong smoker.

Leave It to Beaver: It is implied Ward (the father) smokes a pipe, as he owns a collection of said pipes and has tobacco inside. In one episode, Beaver and Larry fill one of Ward's pipes with tobacco ash and light it – and Wally gets the blame! (The misunderstanding is cleared up, of course.)

My Three Sons: Steve smoked a pipe. In several late 1960s episodes, Robbie also smoked a pipe.

It usually arrives in the form of a victory cigar for Viper pilot protagonists Apollo and/or Starbuck. Some of the other pilots also smoke the odd celebratory cigar. Justified in that a common celebratory gesture after successful combat missions actually is a cigar.

Bill Adama is implied to smoke (he carries a lighter his father gave him), and later is seen smoking a herbal blend with President Roslin.

In an homage to the 1978 Superman film, Smallville's Lois Lane is seen smoking in her debut episode, however she's trying to quit, and apparently does so because we never see her smoke again or hear it mentioned.

Angelus smokes once over the course of both series -after he's just killed a prostitute and sucked the smoke directly out of her neck. In fact once Angel turns evil, one of the very first things he does after he teams up with the other villains is smoke a cigarette.

Angel smokes few seconds before he sets his ex-girlfriends on fire. It's kinda a plot point.

Angel also smokes in season 2 during a flashback.

Nearly every character seen smoking in the Buffyverse is evil, doomed, or under a spell.

In the episode ''Band Candy'', both Joyce and Giles smoke. Joyce lives for another two seasons, and Giles is killed in Season 8.

Spike smokes cigarettes throughout the series. He is already dead. Of course, given the extreme susceptibility Buffyverse vampires have towards Kill It with Fire, this makes him quite the badass by itself.

In Season 5, with Spike having moved from Villain to Anti-Hero, the writers humorously make a point that his smoking isn't stupid only because he's already dead: Xander says as Spike lights a cigarette, "Those things'll kill you" and Spike gives him a look as a reminder that he's already dead.

Harmony takes up smoking specifically because she's evil. Unfortunately, she's as terrible at smoking as she is at being evil.

Lorne seems to be the "only smokes when stressed" type.

The X-Files relied on this heavily for nearly eight seasons, The Cigarette Smoking Man (Aka Cancer Man) being the most prominent example. Then they introduced Monica Reyes, who admitted that smoking was "not very FBI of [her]" and seemed sheepish about her habit, often making up excuses to go outside when she needed a cigarette. She claims she is trying to quit and is not shown smoking in Season 9. It seems possible that, given the series' previous use of smoking as a clear marker of evil, the trait was intended to confuse viewers as to whether or not they could trust her until her character was better-established.

Crusade, in an homage to The X-Files (in fact, as part of a whole-episode homage to that show), played with this by having the episode's villain, an alien Man In Black, lighting up a cigarette at the episode's climax after explaining to the heroes how they have managed to convince their people of a planet-wide Earthling conspiracy being responsible for all the evils and incompetencies of their government. Of course, he didn't anticipate that Captain Gideon would simply reveal the entire conspiracy, including a recording of his monologue, to the entire planet's population, purely out of spite at him for being such a dick.

In the Small Wonder episode "Smoker's Delight", Jamie and Reggie experiment with tobacco in hope of becoming more popular in junior high school.

Jayne in Firefly smokes cigars. Whether this is because he's a bad rude man or a heroic badass is uncertain, but he is quite capable of getting through a bar fight without discarding his stogie.

In Six Feet Under, Nate takes to smoking in secret as a way of rebelling against the constraints of his life.

My Own Worst Enemy has an interesting example: The main character has been given a split personality. Ordinary nice guy family man Henry doesn't smoke. Bad Ass Normal spy guy Edward does.

Mad Men. Everyone smokes at some point, usually cigarettes. Regardless of moral status, actually. The main exceptions are Pete Campbell (it seems that Vincent Kartheiser has never been a smoker, and one of the rules of Mad Men is that only smokers or ex-smokers are permitted to smoke in the show, even though the cigarettes are herbal) and Bert Cooper (where it fits in to his rather eccentric personality, which also includes being a bachelor into old age and decorating his office in the Japanese fashion and requiring visitors to it to remove their shoes—all quite weird in early '60s America).

In the BBC series, Life On Mars, everyone in the police station smoked (in 1973). Future boy Sam, with his unending morals and 21st century views, was the only one not to smoke, except for one time when it served to aid him in some way. An obvious reference to real seventies cop shows, especially The Sweeney.

And here's some bar trivia: The First Doctor lights up a pipe in his first story, which turns out to be an important plot point. The Fourth Doctor has a Turkish hookah in the TARDIS, although considering how much other stuff he picked up over the centuries, it doesn't imply he used it recently.

Countess Scarlioni in City of Death was rarely ever seen without her cigarette holder. And yes, she was a villainess of the supremely classy type.

In "The Enemy of the World", the Doctor's Criminal Doppelgänger, Salamander, is a heavy cigar smoker, which is used as one of the distinguishing points between him and the Doctor.

They had an amusing take on Good Smoking, Evil Smoking; comparing a builder gesturing with a pipe while discussing his plans (and thereby looking solid and reliable) with another gesturing with a cigarette (and thereby looking shifty and untrustworthy).

Stephen Fry mentions in one episode that he was the last person awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year. A gentleman if ever there was.

Bill Bailey would often whip out a pen and pretend to smoke it when he felt like doing a rather posh stereotype. He brought a real pipe a couple of times but hasn't for a while presumably because the BBC has lots of rules when it comes to smoking on TV.

Sarah Connor has quit smoking by time of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Prone to lighting up in T2, one episode shows her in a bar proving the habit well and truly kicked. Just as well for her, too, since one of the things she missed while time-travelling was California's smoking ban.

Lampshaded in an episode of Flash Forward: "Only villains smoke. We know this, right? You may call me Flosso, and I'm a villain."

7th Heaven had a one episode villain who smoked, and ended up accidentally burning down a house. Her response? "You have insurance." The message is "smoking is evil and you should never be friends with smokers"

The second season omitted the ubiquitous smoking of the Elizabethan Era (except in the first episode, shortly after Edmund learnt "Bob" was a girl), but the fourth season showed Lt. George smoking cigarettes and Cpt. Blackadder with a pipe.

The beginning of the Season 2 episode "Potato" had Blackadder remarking about how people were reacting to Sir Walter Raleigh's discovery of the potato, "people are smoking them, building houses out of them. They'll be eating them next". In the same scene Lord Melchett casually offers Blackadder a potato as one would a cigarette.

Clove cigarettes are a sign that Kochanski's ex is a pretentious douchebag in Red Dwarf, at least according to Lister. Then again, Lister also thinks the silly white hat he wears is a sign he's a pretentious douchebag, rather than a sign he's a chef.

American Dreams play this straight at first with only characters like Good Bad Girl Roxanne and troubled cop Pete being smokers but later subverts it with Helen the shows moral compass being revealed as secret a smoker

None of the main characters on Frasier is a regular smoker, and Frasier and Niles usually come down against cigarettes - they are doctors, after all. Their intolerance apparently does not extend to cigars, however, which Niles, Daphne, and Martin all enjoy puffing on in "Adventures in Paradise, Pt. 1".

In Damn Yankees, Applegate mentions that he's trying to quit smoking after demonstrating his trick of pulling a lighted cigarette out of the air. One wonders whether Fire and Brimstone Hell would stop smoking if he did.

Two notable characters both love the same brand of cigar and know John-117 quite well. Those two are Sergeant Avery Johnson and Senior Chief Franklin Mendez. In particular, Mendez was in charge of the Spartan-IIs' training.

Captain Keyes has a pipe he carries with him and chews on occasionally, but doesn't smoke it due to various reasons.

Any character in the Haloverse can get away with smoking now, since cancer is out of the genome for most people. If you do get it, it's easily cured.

Most of the characters in Grim Fandango qualify due to the heavy Film Noir influences in the game's plot. The gentle Meche smokes to show you how hard and jaded her experiences in the Underworld have made her. But they're all dead, so...

Lampshaded in this exchange between Manny and literal Speed Demon, Glottis:

Glottis: It's not just a job, it's what I was created to do! If I get any farther away from a car than this, I'll get sick and die! It's like I'm not happy unless I'm breathing in the thick, black, nauseating fumes!

Elvis in God Hand constantly smokes a massive cigar and uses it to fight. When he dies, the cigar goes out.

Metal Gear: Solid Snake is a lifelong cigarette smoker whose smoking habit turns in handy in several ways during the games, while his original nemesis Big Boss has been a fan of cigars since at least the 1960s.

In the Japanese version of Skies of Arcadia, resident Badass Longcoat Gilder smokes a cigar. It's even on his flag; this was, in fact, the lone relic of smoking left in the localization. Vyse's generally badass father also has a cigar in the Japanese version.

Cid Highwind from Final Fantasy VII is most often seen with a cigarette. And keeps a pack held by his goggles. He actually uses them to light a stick of dynamite in one Limit Break.

Though his other major appearance has his smoking habit replaced with him holding a reed in his mouth, and he's not seen to do much smoking in Advent Children... but then he lights up a victory cigarette after blowing up a reactor in Dirge of Cerberus. This may be because in Advent Children he appears very briefly and spends most of the time killing a gigantic monster, and Kingdom Hearts is a Disney game. In the novelization of Kingdom Hearts, however, he is described as smoking cigarettes. Seems they slipped that one right past the radar.

Captain Price in Modern Warfare is shown smoking a cigar before the mission Crew Expendable. In in the sequel, Soap, who served under him, smokes a cigar before the mission Cliffhanger.

Big Bad General Shepherd in Modern Warfare 2 is not only an excellent case of evil smoking. After he shoots Roach and Ghost and dumps them into a ditch soaked with gasoline, he steps up to the dying Roach and throws his burning cigar at them.

Price also lights up a few times in MW3, most notably after he hangs Makarov from the ceiling of the Hotel Oasis.

One of the arcade games has Dummied Out sprites of Heat Man smoking. While he is evil, the fact that he's based on a Zippo lighter probably has more to do with it.

Team Fortress 2. Smoking is era-correct, as it's set in the 60s, when smoking was cool.

A couple of servers make the Soldier a Cigar Chomper as he is in some of the short movies, for the express purpose of making him more badass, as the description for the thing says. Nowadays he has a misc items, a pair of mutton chops, this gives him a pipe, complete with a visible trail of smoke.

The Spy is rarely seen without a cigarette. One of his taunts involves flicking his cigarette onto his enemy's corpse! However, he is also French.

Sniper is also a cigarette smoker, although not to the extent that Spy is. His newest misc item, a sweater vest, gives him a pipe similar to the Soldier's.

Some characters in Conker's Bad Fur Day, including mobster Don Weaso as well as Conker during the It's War segment were seen smoking cigars. The fire imp in Bat's Tower, however, was smoking a cigarette.

Mr. Leland in Alpha Protocol is chewing a big, fat cigar throughout his debriefing with Mike, and if Mike accepts his offer and joins Halbech at the end, Leland gives him a cigar to seal the deal at the end of the game, signifying his Face–Heel Turn.

SashaNein of Psychonauts chain-smokes constantly. He's good—he smokes through the European (he's German) and Bad Ass exceptions. It also helps with his image as a fifties-esque super spy and G-Man.

Gentleman Cho'Goth skin of League of Legends features a pipe to go with the monocle and glass of wine.

Tychus in Starcraft II smokes cigars, inside his helmet, and fits the Bad Ass and Jerk Ass sterotypes. Raynor on the other hand keeps a pack of cigarettes in his bandolier that he's only shown smoking a couple times.

The 'smoking inside helmet' goes back to the original StarCraft as well, with a particular CGI cutscene. The characters in it didn't have much of a personality, but seeing as they are all Marines, they fit more or less into the same stereotype that Tychus is an extreme example of.

One of the items you need to lay the ghost of Matilda Fly to rest in Dark Fall: Lost Souls is a cigarette holder, which she's depicted holding in posters for her stage performances. Justified because she's from the 1940s and dressed to project a glamorous, sexy image.

In the first volume of The Easy Breather, the sorceress Karman McKnockside usually has a cigarette in her hand. In fact, part of the premise of the Easy Breather mythos is the heroine's campaign against tobacco and other air pollutants.

Enkidu of Heroes of Lesser Earth is an Anti-Hero type who is always chomping on a cigar.

Miriam from Out There smokes, and gets the sexy rule suspension. She's got a pile of character flaws, but not enough to mark her down as evil.

Mr Egbert is an example of Good Smoking - he smokes an old-fashioned pipe almost constantly (his online handle is even 'pipefan413'), and is portrayed as a Bumbling Dad and Doting Parent who genuinely cares about his son.

Snowman, on the other hand, is an example of Evil Smoking, complete with a cigarette holder she likes to stab people with because it is also a lance.

This being Homestuck, it eventually gets Up to Eleven when we see John's Dad's WALLET MODUS contains, among other things, a pile of pipes that is about the same size as John, as well as 10 tons of pipe tobacco.

El Goonish Shive uses the Bad Ass variant of Good Smoking very briefly and even then it seems to be used solely as setup to identify a character's silhouette.

The "pipe smoking=good" part of the trope is averted by Ask That Guy with the Glasses who is rarely seen without his pipe. The fact that he's frequently had sex with this same pipe is one of his least disturbing vices. Among his more disturbing ones include serial murder, rape, pedophilia, and cannibalism.

Disney is one of the heaviest pushers of this trope. See the Film example above.

The company recently announced that smoking of any kind, by any character, would never again be depicted in a film released under the Disney Studios label.

Phineas and Ferb shows they are holding true to that edict. In "Last Train To Bustville", we see Glenda the engineer with a pipe. It's a bubble pipe.

"Gravity Falls" also shows this in an episode featuring living wax museum which includes a Grouch Marx who appears to be holding... nothing. He even lampshades this by asking, "Hey, why is there nothing in my hand?"

Tom Cat occasionally smoked when he was trying to impress a female, which makes it a very early example of "only big dummies smoke".

Dr. Girlfriend gets the "sexy" rule suspension...almost. She has a gravelly mannish voice from years of smoking.

Brock Sampson almost always has a cigarette in his mouth, and has the bad-ass exception in spades. He's also a parody of the super-spies and government agents that made smoking look cool.

Brock's mentor Hunter Gathers is one of the very few examples of someone who smokes with a cigarette holder who isn't evil or sophisticated. Of course, he's an Expy of Hunter S. Thompson.

Professor Impossible smokes a pipe. He's an expy of Reed Richards, with an old-fashioned, pseudo-wholesome personality, but he's a nonchalant Jerk Ass who eventually undergoes a Face–Heel Turn.

Monstroso chain smokes cigars and is a Corrupt Corporate Executive. He offers The Monarch a cigar three times in one minute, and again later, and begins their conversation by lighting up a cigar after he just put one out before they walked in.

Sergeant Hatred was very frequently seen smoking cigars back when he worked for the Guild, but ever since he made a complete Heel–Face Turn and joined Team Venture he seems to have dropped the habit.

In Bravestarr, Tex-Hex's henchman Scuzz smokes cigars, and it is clearly hurting him; he coughs and wheezes constantly. He's often the butt of many jokes about it, even by Hex's other henchmen.

Paw Rugg from Hanna-Barbera's "The Hillbilly Bears" smokes a corncob pipe. So does his wife, Maw.

Dale Gribble is a chain smoker; having done it since the third grade because he doesn't know what to do with his hands. Cotton Hill smokes cigars when he celebrates. Hank Hill smokes rarely and it's typically when he's under a lot of stress.

One episode had a big anti-smoking message, where even his wife and SON wound up addicted to it, so it was up to his non-smoker niece to smooth things over, even taking drastic measures by locking them in a room.

There is also the Debbie Grund two-part episode, where Hank takes up smoking in response to all the stress he is facing. At one point, Hank ends up smoking a marijuana cigarette by accident, which leads to a hilariously exaggerated reaction by Hank.

Next to spinach, the one item most iconic of Popeye the Sailor Man is the corncob pipe he smokes. When CBS produced The All-New Popeye Hour cartoon show for Saturday mornings, they retconned this in one of its short segments, which had Popeye speaking out against the hazards of smoking. ("I just uses me pipe for tootin'!")

Bender, the nominally evil robot in Futurama, is frequently shown with beer and a cigar, particularly in his more selfish and narcissistic moments. He explains to Fry that he needs the alcohol to power his fuel cells, but the cigar just makes him look cool.

Dan Backslide, the "coward-bully-cad-and-thief" of Chuck Jones's "The Dover Boys", is first seen in a cloud of tobacco smoke (when he speaks, his first word comes out in smoky letters). Naturally he uses a cigarette-holder.

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